/u/ArseneArsenic's posts in /r/WritingPrompts
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[WP] Your party believe you to be a powerful cleric, sent by their god to help them save the world. The paladin believes you’re a warlock or demon in disguise. Really, you’re con artist in over their head.
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[WP] Your family is cursed. Some would say blessed, but make no mistake, it is a curse. All of you are immortal, unable to die until you've achieved something great, an impossible task, and became a legend. You are 947 years, 5 months, 22 days and 3 hours old, the second eldest still alive.
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[WP] When your planets' fighters left to fight the humans, you expected glorious battles, heroes and feuds worthy of both your races' proud warrior histories and legends. You were instead met with a bleak, anonymous, industrial war machine.
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[WP] After years of being saved and protected by superheroes, it becomes routine. Years of a superhuman savior always coming to wipe away the world's troubles made mundane. People forget that, behind the power, there is a person as fragile as everyone else.
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[WP] You would never have been king. Secondborn, cunning where your brother was strong. Pragmatic where he was brave. So you made a kingdom of your own. Fleets of pirates and raiders, thousands, ravage the coasts at your word. Now your brother asks for help, your home is under attack he says.
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[WP] The internet wakes up, and humanity realizes it's been meddling with the thoughts, memories and synaptic transmissions of an artificial Great Old One.
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[WP] A last-ditch summoning meant to bring your world a hero who could fight the hordes of monsters overrunning it goes wrong, and when you look down at your summoning circle, you realize you had spelled 'war-chief' as 'war-chef' instead. You'll have to make do.
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